[XeTeX] xelatex not working

[Jonathan Kew]

On 9 Aug 2006, at 6:59 pm, Joshua Grauman wrote:

> Ok, so I got past the xkeyval problem, and have another one ;)
>
> This is my error:
>
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/tex/xelatex/xkeyval/keyval.tex)))
> fontspec.cfg loaded.
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/tex/xelatex/fontspec/ 
> fontspec.cfg))
> (./Hebrew3.aux) [1] (./Hebrew3.aux) )
> (null) -> Hebrew3.pdf
> [1
> ** ERROR ** Unable to find TFM file "cmr10".
>

That's coming from xdvipdfmx, rather than xetex itself. Where is  
xdvipdfmx installed? If it didn't end up in the same location as  
other tex-related binaries, then it may not find the same  
configuration files.

Note that some systems keep the binaries themselves in a platform- 
specific directory under .../teTeX/bin/...., and place symlinks into / 
usr/local/bin or similar; installing a program like xdvipdfmx  
directly into /usr/local/bin may not work in this case, as it won't  
find the same texmf.cnf. Try comparing the results of:
     ls -l `which xetex`
     ls -l `which xdvipdfmx`

(But I don't know how the Slackware packages are set up; this may not  
be relevant.)

JK